About Drug Story, my new podcast

DRUG STORY, my new podcast about the disease business - one drug at a time - is live.

The first episode, on the EpiPen and food allergies, is available now at Substack, Apple, Spotify, or wherever you get your podcasts.

Every episode tells a new story about some familiar drugs, from Zoloft to Lipitor to Xanax to Testosterone (but is Low T *really* a disease? We get into that in Episode 6).

And along the way, we try to tell new stories about the conditions these drugs treat:
-Why the epidemic of food allergies in children was exacerbated by years of exactly the WRONG professional guidance.
-Why so much insomnia is the result of the very modern world we’ve built, with all its scrolling and alarms.
-Why obesity is most certainly not a matter of will power or self control, but the inevitable result of the Green Revolution in agriculture, which made grain cheap and abundant.

Most of all, we tried to make something fun. Like my favorite podcasts - Planet Money, 99% Invisible, or Cautionary Tales - Drug Story aims to inform and entertain.

There are only 10 episodes in this first season, so please download early and often!

Special thanks to Molly Woerner, Rachel Swaby, Audrey Ngo, Elise Hu, and Mark Bush for teaching me the ropes. And thanks to Adam Brodsley for designing the amazing Drug Story logo.